Tawffeek A S Mohammed
Biographic Data
| ID | 6712682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tawffeek A S Mohammed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tawffeek A S |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohammed |
| SIGNATURE | MOHAMMED T A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7314-9688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
YouTube as a Geopolitical Actor in the Mediation of Child Marriage Discourses in Yemen: A Case Study of Nujood Ali’s Story
This study examines YouTube’s role in mediating televised reporting on child marriage in Yemen by focusing on the case of Nujood Ali, who was forced into marriage at the age of eight and was divorced at ten. Her story drew global attention from social workers, human rights organizations, religious scholars, and politicians. By focusing on this case, this study explores how YouTube, as a global technology platform, shapes the visibility and framin…
Slāwat and Barakāt: A Sociolinguistic Overview of the Interwoven Culture of the Cape Malays
Slāwat (‘prayers’) and Barakāt (‘blessings’) hold significance for the Cape Malay Muslim community. This paper explores the etymology and linguistic assimilation of these terms into the South African cultural lexicon, with a specific focus on Cape Town’s Muslim population. It employs historical linguistics and ethnographic considerations to investigate the lexical and cultural nuances of these terms to illustrate how slāwat and barakāt transcend …
Ubuntu in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Educational, Cultural and Philosophical Considerations
Ubuntu has been defined as a moral quality of human beings, as a philosophy or an ethic, as African humanism, and as a worldview. This paper explores these definitions as conceptual tools for understanding the cultural, educational, and philosophical landscape of post-apartheid South Africa. Key to this understanding is the Althusserian concept of state apparatus. Louis Althusser divides the state apparatus into two forces: the repressive state a…
Exploring child marriage in Yemen: A critical analysis of an Arab media corpus
Purpose This study adopts a qualitative approach to a critical media analysis of the multifaceted aspects of child marriage in the Yemeni context as an example of the broader Arab context. It seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the current situation, underlying causes and consequences of child marriage, as well as efforts to curb the practice. Design/methodology/approach This study utilizes a thematic analysis approach, examining various t…
Enhancing Instrumental Competence in Translator Training in a Higher Education Context: A Task-Based Approach
This study aims to design a task-based e-Course for teaching computer-aided translation technology in a higher education context. It also investigates the impact of the e-Course on enhancing the instrumental competence of trainees, as reflected from their use of translation products. This study employs mixed qualitative and quantitative methods using descriptive statistics, pre-post paired sample tests, and an analysis of the translation process.…
An Exploration of Student Interpreters’ Attitudes Towards the Undergraduate Interpreting Training Programmes at Yemeni Universities
This study investigates the attitudes of trainee interpreters towards their training programmes at Yemeni universities. 61 interpreters in Taiz province participated in the study. A 16-item questionnaire was designed to explore their attitudes towards their programmes. The findings of this study show that the interpreters are not satisfied with the current programmes. The results also show that the programme does not adequately enhance the interp…
The Use of Corpora in Translation Into the Second Language: A Project-Based Approach
This manuscript investigates to what extent the use of corpora could help translation trainees while translating from Arabic into English and vice versa. Forty Yemeni trainees, who were enrolled in an advanced course in Arabic-English translation during the academic year 2020, participated in the study. They participated in translation projects from which the data for this study was collected, using thinking aloud protocols and computational obse…
The Topoi of Mandela's Death in the Arabic Speaking Media: A Corpus-Based Political Discourse Analysis
The present study attempts a political discourse analysis of a spoken Arabic corpus on the death of Nelson Mandela. The corpus mainly consists of the coverage of some Arabic-speaking TV channels that was broadcasted in the aftermath of the announcement of Nelson Mandela's death in 2013. The discourse-historical approach was employed with a view to finding out the various topoi and ideologies deployed in the corpus. For this purpose, the spoken co…
Translating Linguistic and Situation-based Jokes from Arabic into English: An Integrated Approach
أصبحت النكات على نحو متزايد الوسيلة التي يعبر من خلالها الناس في مختلف البلدان العربية عن همومهم. تمتلئ منصات وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي مثل Facebook وTwitter بالنكات التي تتناول مختلف مجالات الحياة. وتتناول الدراسة الحالية التعقيدات التي تنطوي عليها ترجمة النكات العربية بشكل عام والنكات السياسية بشكل خاص إلى اللغة الإنجليزية. وإلى أي مدى يمكن تحقيق التكافؤ الترجمي في اللغة الهدف وتحقيق الغرض الأصلي من النكات والذي لا ينحصر فقط على المرح و إمتاع الج…
Towards a Blended Programme for Arabic and Other Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) in the South African Higher Education Context
Disruptive technologies are widely used in education today. They aim to develop the knowledge, skills, and competencies of students. The field of applied linguistics, in general, and foreign language teaching, in particular, have benefited immensely from the developments taking place in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and mobile-assisted language learning (MALL). However, meaningful learning cannot be achieved by using technology indis…
Problematizing Lexico-Grammatical Equivalence in Arabic-English Translation
This study deals with the concept of grammatical equivalence in Arabic-English translation. It investigates the problems that encounter student translators (STs) while translating grammatical constructions from Arabic into English. It is based on a parallel corpus of the translations of five groups of STs at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Taiz University, Yemen. The STs are doing their final year and by the time of the administration…
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Problematizing Lexico-Grammatical Equivalence in Arabic-English Translation
This study deals with the concept of grammatical equivalence in Arabic-English translation. It investigates the problems that encounter student translators (STs) while translating grammatical constructions from Arabic into English. It is based on a parallel corpus of the translations of five groups of STs at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Taiz University, Yemen. The STs are doing their final year and by the time of the administration…
Towards a Blended Programme for Arabic and Other Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) in the South African Higher Education Context
Disruptive technologies are widely used in education today. They aim to develop the knowledge, skills, and competencies of students. The field of applied linguistics, in general, and foreign language teaching, in particular, have benefited immensely from the developments taking place in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and mobile-assisted language learning (MALL). However, meaningful learning cannot be achieved by using technology indis…
The Use of Corpora in Translation Into the Second Language: A Project-Based Approach
This manuscript investigates to what extent the use of corpora could help translation trainees while translating from Arabic into English and vice versa. Forty Yemeni trainees, who were enrolled in an advanced course in Arabic-English translation during the academic year 2020, participated in the study. They participated in translation projects from which the data for this study was collected, using thinking aloud protocols and computational obse…
The Topoi of Mandela's Death in the Arabic Speaking Media: A Corpus-Based Political Discourse Analysis
The present study attempts a political discourse analysis of a spoken Arabic corpus on the death of Nelson Mandela. The corpus mainly consists of the coverage of some Arabic-speaking TV channels that was broadcasted in the aftermath of the announcement of Nelson Mandela's death in 2013. The discourse-historical approach was employed with a view to finding out the various topoi and ideologies deployed in the corpus. For this purpose, the spoken co…
Translating Linguistic and Situation-based Jokes from Arabic into English: An Integrated Approach
أصبحت النكات على نحو متزايد الوسيلة التي يعبر من خلالها الناس في مختلف البلدان العربية عن همومهم. تمتلئ منصات وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي مثل Facebook وTwitter بالنكات التي تتناول مختلف مجالات الحياة. وتتناول الدراسة الحالية التعقيدات التي تنطوي عليها ترجمة النكات العربية بشكل عام والنكات السياسية بشكل خاص إلى اللغة الإنجليزية. وإلى أي مدى يمكن تحقيق التكافؤ الترجمي في اللغة الهدف وتحقيق الغرض الأصلي من النكات والذي لا ينحصر فقط على المرح و إمتاع الج…
Enhancing Instrumental Competence in Translator Training in a Higher Education Context: A Task-Based Approach
This study aims to design a task-based e-Course for teaching computer-aided translation technology in a higher education context. It also investigates the impact of the e-Course on enhancing the instrumental competence of trainees, as reflected from their use of translation products. This study employs mixed qualitative and quantitative methods using descriptive statistics, pre-post paired sample tests, and an analysis of the translation process.…
An Exploration of Student Interpreters’ Attitudes Towards the Undergraduate Interpreting Training Programmes at Yemeni Universities
This study investigates the attitudes of trainee interpreters towards their training programmes at Yemeni universities. 61 interpreters in Taiz province participated in the study. A 16-item questionnaire was designed to explore their attitudes towards their programmes. The findings of this study show that the interpreters are not satisfied with the current programmes. The results also show that the programme does not adequately enhance the interp…
Ubuntu in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Educational, Cultural and Philosophical Considerations
Ubuntu has been defined as a moral quality of human beings, as a philosophy or an ethic, as African humanism, and as a worldview. This paper explores these definitions as conceptual tools for understanding the cultural, educational, and philosophical landscape of post-apartheid South Africa. Key to this understanding is the Althusserian concept of state apparatus. Louis Althusser divides the state apparatus into two forces: the repressive state a…
Exploring child marriage in Yemen: A critical analysis of an Arab media corpus
Purpose This study adopts a qualitative approach to a critical media analysis of the multifaceted aspects of child marriage in the Yemeni context as an example of the broader Arab context. It seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the current situation, underlying causes and consequences of child marriage, as well as efforts to curb the practice. Design/methodology/approach This study utilizes a thematic analysis approach, examining various t…
Slāwat and Barakāt: A Sociolinguistic Overview of the Interwoven Culture of the Cape Malays
Slāwat (‘prayers’) and Barakāt (‘blessings’) hold significance for the Cape Malay Muslim community. This paper explores the etymology and linguistic assimilation of these terms into the South African cultural lexicon, with a specific focus on Cape Town’s Muslim population. It employs historical linguistics and ethnographic considerations to investigate the lexical and cultural nuances of these terms to illustrate how slāwat and barakāt transcend …
YouTube as a Geopolitical Actor in the Mediation of Child Marriage Discourses in Yemen: A Case Study of Nujood Ali’s Story
This study examines YouTube’s role in mediating televised reporting on child marriage in Yemen by focusing on the case of Nujood Ali, who was forced into marriage at the age of eight and was divorced at ten. Her story drew global attention from social workers, human rights organizations, religious scholars, and politicians. By focusing on this case, this study explores how YouTube, as a global technology platform, shapes the visibility and framin…
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